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Publication Date: June 25, 2002
What Are You People Looking For?
I'm going to be a bit lazy this week -- I've been wanting to run this for a while, and I've got some potentially big stuff going on in the background, so I'm going to let this one write itself. Besides, the season's over, so I'm in mourning. Stick around, though, it's going to be a fun off-season.
I admit it, I'm a geek. I look at the logs from this Web site more or less daily. Part of that is just looking for ways to better match what it is that the readers want -- I do this for my own amusement, but that doesn't mean I don't respond to perceived readers' wishes as long as they don't take the site in directions I'm not interested in. Part of it is just fun, though. It's neat to see that I got a hit from Croatia last week, or that there's a link to my site from the NCAA's umpiring program site, or to see the daily ebb and flow of traffic, which doesn't always match what I expect.
Anyway, one subset of the referral records get interesting some times -- the Google searches. That's because they don't always match up with any subject that I ever remembering writing about. I've gone through and picked out the best and included them here with a link built in so you can try them and see if you can find your way back here to see the connection if the search results still come back the same. I don't want to overanalyze them (although the number of times the phrase "Gary Busey lookalike" comes up on the Web is almost scary), so here they are:
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